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Your first job as an early stage startup founder is to get your first customer. Your second job is to stay alive so you can get the next one. Your first job as an early stage startup founder is to get your first customer. Your second job is to stay alive so you can get […]
The most important tool to finding product-market fit is in your hand right now and a lot of founders are too scared to use it. Pick up the phone and call your customers. It seems obvious, but every single time I suggest it to founders, they act like I just told them to remove their own […]
People like Brad Feld have done a lot of writing on startup communities and what makes strong entrepreneurial ecosystems unique. Some of it is tangible — great engineering schools (Stanford), tech success stories (Google/Apple/Facebook), access to angel/venture capital (pick one) — but there are other factors that are much less obvious. I’ve been to startup […]
Short answer: downloads will still go up. Last week, Speak Chic was featured as the “App of the Week” on Sunrise on Channel 7. Sunrise is known as “Australia’s number one breakfast show” and the piece ran during Mercedes-Benz Australian Fashion Week. This was also the first piece of live TV for the app, […]